Funders’ evaluation practices are changing. But questioning the status quo can sometimes feel isolating. In Scotland, a peer support group is helping funders to navigate new ways of learning.

The Unite Foundation funds scholarships for care experienced young people, but it also wants to improve the university system. By using the Hub to connect with other funders, they've formed new partnerships to build an influential evidence base for providing stable homes to care experienced students.

By pooling resources, knowledge and networks, a group of funders are using their collective power to build a better food and farming system.

Nine foundation chief executives share their collective experience of forming a sector-wide initiative to drive action on racial justice

The Greater Manchester Funders Forum helped its members respond to the stresses of Covid-19 - and explore ways to make their funding more inclusive.

Together with their partners, the Blagrave Trust set out to address a collective failure to listen to young people.

Funder collaboration doesn’t have to be complicated. By sharing an opportunity on the Hub, Continuo Foundation connected with like-minded funders who agreed to pool resources, making grant processes more streamlined and accessible for small music ensembles.

A group of local funders recognised that sharing more data was essential for coordinating their efforts effectively. They worked together to create Bucks Data Exchange, which is now informing the work of funders, charities and voluntary groups.

A charitable trust and a local authority saw that their separate funding processes were incentivising competition rather than collaboration between local service providers. Now they are in a five-year strategic partnership that is transforming youth work in Perth and Kinross, with potential for nationwide influence.

The Future Mental Health Collective is a global peer-to-peer network for mental health funders, including individual philanthropists, foundations and corporations. Creating a trusted safe space for this community is key to its success.

Justice Together is a values-led collaboration, aiming to improve access to justice in the immigration system by creating a more accessible, sustainable and co-ordinated sector

The Match Trading® Task Force has catalysed funder experimentation, learning and impact, while helping social enterprises become more sustainable.

LocalMotion is a collaboration between six funders and six local communities. Kathleen Kelly shares what they have learned so far.

Participatory grantmaking is not new, but has only recently started blossoming. Community and cameraderie have been key ingredients.

In response to the pandemic, Gloucestershire Funders came together as an informal, action-oriented collaboration to share intelligence between funders and simplify processes through a single application form.

Reshaped by the pandemic, Wales Funders’ Forum is a space for funders to learn from each other, problem solve together and increase funding co-operation.

By match-funding with Government, the Co-op Foundation aimed to build an evidence base and influence policy on tackling loneliness.

A group of arts funders took urgent action in the pandemic, thanks to Jerwood Arts' specialist capabilities to fund individual artists.

Collaborative funding has been crucial for helping London's civil society infrastructure to work together towards a collective vision for change.

Combining their expertise in the women’s sector and financial resilience helped Rosa and the Smallwood Trust to amplify their advocacy voice.

To anyone looking at our funding system from the outside, the lack of co-ordination would seem strange. In Moray, funders are working to address this.

Set up in response to urgent need for legal advice during the pandemic, the Community Justice Fund is now working towards a longer-term vision.

In response to a crisis, five funders came together with the aim of strengthening funders’ safeguarding cultures and capabilities. Now they've developed a global space for the sector to learn together.

No Going Back helps prison leavers build productive lives, and is proving that Livery Companies - in partnership with other expert organisations - can learn and change more when collaborating.